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General Car Chat / Re: Jaguar
« on: Today at 07:20:50 »Not defending them, but they stopped building cars, so of course new car sales are going to fall off a cliff
Well, you can prove anything with facts these days...
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Well, you can prove anything with facts these days...
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Omega General Help / Oil cooler pipe replacement
« on: Yesterday at 22:28:21 »
Started stripping the engine for the purple project.
Oil cooler pipe is rusted through, and in removing it I discovered the fixing was also shot, having become one with the pipe. Gently trimmed it with the watchmaker's grinder to remove it.
Obviously no longer available, option 1 is to find a good used set but failing that... I'm assuming Pirtek or similar will be able to make me a replacement? It's only a pipe with a flare each end, right?
Oil cooler pipe is rusted through, and in removing it I discovered the fixing was also shot, having become one with the pipe. Gently trimmed it with the watchmaker's grinder to remove it.
Obviously no longer available, option 1 is to find a good used set but failing that... I'm assuming Pirtek or similar will be able to make me a replacement? It's only a pipe with a flare each end, right?
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General Car Chat / Broken silver Elite estate, A688, one of ours?
« on: 28 June 2025, 17:10:33 »
Stopped with a broken Elite estate near the entertainingly named Cockfield in Co Durham earlier, chap said he had the AA en route and was happy to wait, just wondered if it was an OOFer?
Was gone by the time we came back two hours later so either the AA had been or the owner had pushed it into a field and walked home...
Was gone by the time we came back two hours later so either the AA had been or the owner had pushed it into a field and walked home...
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 26 June 2025, 10:59:32 »Took a Yeti full of rubbish from my unit to the skips, lots of cardboard from new parts for the Austin. I can now open the other door without a landslide! Front wheels in car as well to get balanced when I pick up the rear wheels with new boots on today. Not long now before shakedown runs, bleed the brakes again with only some minute bubbles from front caliper and suspect that was being sucked in around nipple threads. Brake solid but goes quite soft with servo, normal for Omega?
In fact https://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=90442.0
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 26 June 2025, 10:58:07 »
Yeah, very normal. There is an adjuster under the normal brake pedal that can take some of the slack out but it's the way they're designed.
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Omega General Help / Re: Rear track rod bolt size?
« on: 25 June 2025, 08:00:29 »
Answered my own question with a bit of Googlefu under the alternative part number 423945.
Turns out it is also known as a "Bolt til spissing stag bakaksel" which could also be a lovely offensive phrase.
M12x70 is the size and for reference this is the aite I found https://klassisk-opel.no/sv/omega/omega-b/omega-b-gruppe-4-bakaksel/bolt-til-spissing-stag-bakaksel
Turns out it is also known as a "Bolt til spissing stag bakaksel" which could also be a lovely offensive phrase.
M12x70 is the size and for reference this is the aite I found https://klassisk-opel.no/sv/omega/omega-b/omega-b-gruppe-4-bakaksel/bolt-til-spissing-stag-bakaksel
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 22 June 2025, 18:26:09 »
Teailing arms on. Subframe on. Diff on. Backplates straightened and painted. Cooling on gas!
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Omega General Help / Rear track rod bolt size?
« on: 22 June 2025, 15:55:49 »
Currently on the missing list are the two 90468842 bolts that bolt the rear track rods on. Anyone know what size they are so I can get some spangly high tensile replacements?
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 22 June 2025, 10:53:44 »
I'm woth Gollum on this. I'd rather have done it with a HGV behind me than just a van or 4x4 with flashing lights, for one thing. But not everyone reacts to blue lights. Yes it's potentially dangerous and I wouldn't have been running about in a live carriageway without some sort of protection*
I'd rather do that than read on the news later that some people have been killed being struck while broken down in live lane. Equally I would never expect anyone to do it if they weren't comfortable and preferably fast road trained.
*It's a calculated risk. We were driving back up country so in whatever car and we came across a BDV in live lane of a dual carriageway, we both agreed that stopping with no protection, no facility for signals on that stretch, would be a fool's errand so called it in on 999 with direction and marker post.
Then about 4 or 5 miles further up, same county, another one. "Thank you, we are aware, got RPU going..." "Is that the silver one? This one is a different one and black" "oh. Bugger!".
I'd rather do that than read on the news later that some people have been killed being struck while broken down in live lane. Equally I would never expect anyone to do it if they weren't comfortable and preferably fast road trained.
*It's a calculated risk. We were driving back up country so in whatever car and we came across a BDV in live lane of a dual carriageway, we both agreed that stopping with no protection, no facility for signals on that stretch, would be a fool's errand so called it in on 999 with direction and marker post.
Then about 4 or 5 miles further up, same county, another one. "Thank you, we are aware, got RPU going..." "Is that the silver one? This one is a different one and black" "oh. Bugger!".
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Omega General Help / Re: Shudder when dipping clutch or accelerating hard
« on: 22 June 2025, 08:33:34 »
Two engine mounts in the bay are accessible with long extensions and a socket.
Worth getting it on a ramp and giving all the transmission mounts a prod and check they're done up tight. Under the box is a big rubber mount that can split, then the mounts under the prop and around the diff, too. Rule that lot out before you start unmantling anything fiddly.
Worth getting it on a ramp and giving all the transmission mounts a prod and check they're done up tight. Under the box is a big rubber mount that can split, then the mounts under the prop and around the diff, too. Rule that lot out before you start unmantling anything fiddly.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Ancient Central Heating System
« on: 19 June 2025, 05:29:21 »
Got to be worth sitting down in front of it with a brew and the Youtubes and having a go.
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 18 June 2025, 07:23:58 »
Stripped the family T25 engine after it failed to proceed.
Head gasket ist kaput .. good excuse to put in a bigger engine. I've been told to stay sensible as it isn't ours... Sadly a VR6 would need a bit too much work and a Subaru lump a bit spendy.
Head gasket ist kaput .. good excuse to put in a bigger engine. I've been told to stay sensible as it isn't ours... Sadly a VR6 would need a bit too much work and a Subaru lump a bit spendy.
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General Car Chat / Re: R169 PNP
« on: 17 June 2025, 11:03:34 »
Possibly a demo car on an -NP reg.
If it was Wheeler Dealers it'd be worth FAAZANDS
If it was Wheeler Dealers it'd be worth FAAZANDS
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General Car Chat / Bargain bushes for Carlton botherers
« on: 13 June 2025, 21:05:20 »
Doing a spot of online shopping for the project and spotted these. Obviously no good for Omega B but if anyone still has a Senator or Carlton...
https://ebay.us/m/6in5RS
Seller has a few bits for old Vauxhalls and others, I got some bushes the other week and they turned up PDQ.
https://ebay.us/m/6in5RS
Seller has a few bits for old Vauxhalls and others, I got some bushes the other week and they turned up PDQ.
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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Further ABS fault
« on: 11 June 2025, 21:14:59 »Surely a snap off scanner should manage thatis the unit fully installed and bled ?
Oh! I wonder if it needs connecting to a Tech 2 type thing to cycle the pump to get the air out to allow it to build pressure:/
I don't use anything more nuanced than a hammer so no experience, anything like that I visit my guru
